Thanks for those few kind words. I shall put this down as a YAUT (yet another useless thing). Apart from the pain of compiling Mozilla, the thought of downloading the source on my slow connection, is enough reason to leave well alone.
I shall continue to use a Linux magic spell to connect to the ISP.
Thanks anyway
Leon.
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:13:10 +0100 From: Mr. Adam ALLEN adam@dynamicinteraction.co.uk To: ALUG main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: RE: [ALUG] Mozilla - Dial up.
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 19:59, Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
On 31-Aug-04 Leon Stedman wrote:
In the bottom right corner of my Mozilla screen there is an icon which announces "You are online. Click to go offline". Clicking the icon has no effect other than changing (toggling) the both the icon and the helpful message.
Could anyone please explain how to make it do more? It could, for instance, dial the ISP and put me on line, or run a script to achieve the same effect.
I suspect that's not what it's for.
Experimentally, I dialled up to my ISP. and started downloading the news.bbc.co.uk page using mozilla. Meanwhile, I had the kppp "details" window up (which shows a graph of bytes coming in and going out).
After a few seconds, well before the page was fully loaded, I clicked on this icon in its "online" state. After a second or two, all incoming traffic stopped, and stayed stopped.
So I deduce that the effect of this was to put mozilla itself offline, not to disconnect from the ISP.
I then clicked on it again (now in "offline" state) and while the icon itself reverted to "online" there was no incoming traffic at all. I had expected it to put mozilla back on line and resume traffic from the web site. I had to click "Reload" in order to get it to resume.
After that I could repeat the above cycle again and again. I was connected to the ISP throughout.
I always understood those icons as a means of stopping dialers from popping up when viewing local pages with remote images, object in them.
There's no reason why the functionality of the icon can't be changed.. but compiling mozilla was a pain in the ars^H^H^Hneck due to it's size.
-- Regards, Adam Allen.
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